Background
Smith, Judson was born on June 28, 1837 in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Lucina (Metcalf) Smith.
Smith, Judson was born on June 28, 1837 in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel and Lucina (Metcalf) Smith.
Graduate Amherst College, 1859. Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1863.
Tutor Latin and Greek, Oberlin, 1862-1864. Instructor mathematics and physics, Williston Seminary. Massachusetts, 1864-1866.
Ordained Congressional minister, 1866.
Professor Latin, Oberlin, 1866-1870. Professor ecclesiastical history, Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1870-1884.
Lecturer on modern history, Oberlin, 1875-1884. Correspondent secretary American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, since 1884.
Trustee Oberlin College, Mount Holyoke College, Williston Seminary Associate editor Bibliotheca Sacra.
Visited missions of the board in Turkey in 1888, those in China in 1898. Delegate to World’s Missionary Conference, London, 1888. Delegate and chairman general committee Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions, 1900.
Author: Lectures in Church History and the History of Doctrine, 1881.
Lectures in Modern History, 1881. Etc. Lecturer on foreign missions, Hartford Theological Seminary Residence: Roxbury, Massachusetts
Married J. Augusta Bushnell, August, 1865.